When people plunge into unchartered waters of change it can be the most stressful time of their lives. I know how that feels. Having spent the last 12 years as a consultant to large-scale Agile transformations, and in the prior decade as a leader in telecom, I have experienced first-hand the complexities that challenge leaders to develop and execute relevant vision and strategy. My contribution to transformation is informed by my own personal transformation journey, my work with organizational transformations for nearly 25 years, mentoring and coaching leaders, teams, students, and my studies. Early in my management career, launching new divisions and expanding into new markets, I realized that the missing ingredient in the people I was hiring was not technical skills, but rather the professional competencies, leadership traits, and emotional and social intelligence.   Eighty percent of career achievements are determined by these skills and begin to take shape at a young age.   With a passion for people, relationships and growing emerging leaders, and as a leader to my organization, I decided to study executive coaching and critical professional and life competencies - and that was the beginning of my coaching career.   I was inspired to work with youth as the leaders of our future and started and ran many youth programs in my local community.  My executive coaching included clients such as Women in the Press, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, and dozens of others.   In 2005, I discovered Agile, a unique fit for my skills and passions, and began working with my first large-scale Agile transformation. For the last 11 years, I have dedicated myself to being an architect of change.   Since then my formal credentials include Leadership Circle™ and Leadership System™ Certified Practitioner, 4Sight Conscious Change Consultant Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), SAFe Agilist (SA), ICAgile Professional,  and I founded the Agile Richmond user group. I also studied in the Organizational Behavior program at Ashford University. I am currently Founder and Managing Member of Trans4mation where my focus is conscious integral leadership development and organizational agility and co-author with Michael Spayd of our upcoming book Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently.